Here is the preach from January 10th 2010, by Mark Norridge. I hope you enjoy it!

Purpose, Grace and Gift

 

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Here is Adrian’s talk from beginning of December. I always love listening to Adrian, such a clear, honest, challenging communicator! Enjoy!

 

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Well, our easter event has come and gone!! A whole pile of planning and preparation went into it, and it all seemed to come together rather well!

What I really love about these events that we do is how everyone mucks in and does their bit to make it all work. fantastic job! The food was really good AGAIN!

It was great to explore the easter story together. Here’s how it went:

• Adrian kicked us off with a little look at the mix of stuff that hits us at easter.
• The competition started over starters, with a guess the number of eggs in a jar, and coming up with the most number of uses for an egg!
• John got us organised for a game of detectives: putting some rather obscure clues in chronological order of easter week [well done to the winners, the staffords!].
• After mian course Adam ran us the answers through his rather mind stretching quiz [well done the the winners, the smiths et al].
• Then Jo got the kids doing some Easter craft
• I then gave a shot at the question of why Good Friday is in fact good
• after desert Dave led us to the finish looking at the exciting end to the easter story
• And to the climax of the evening: the flowering of the cross, while Val sang.

For those who haven’t been involved in the last item before, it involves takig a rather ugle wooden cross covered in chcken wire, and everyone taking a flower and adding it to the cross. The effect is really very powerful and moving, as you observe the transformation of the ugle cross to something both beautiful looking and beautiful smelling.

I only have this picture at the moment. Any good pictures anyone??

I stumbled upon this today, an Orthodox icon of the resurrection of Christ, resurrecting with Him, Adam and Eve. Jesus: the head of a new Humanity! I dunno, I just kinda liked it!